Over The Hedge

I took the LilOnes to see the new Over The Hedge animated film on Friday. As an adult, I thought it was very funny and well done. As a parent, I thought it was appropriate for the kids. I'd recommend this film.

Some of the jokes were a little advanced for the age of my kids. Like Shrek, there are some things obviously included just for the benefit of the adults in the audience. But, all in, they were laughing during the film, they talked about the various scenes in the movie the next day, and they asked to go see it again.

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Dangit! We’re way behind ya. We finally watched Nanny McPhee. The kids really want to go to The Hedge and Ice Age 2 and The Wild…(isn’t there another one?), but we don’t seem to drag ourselves over to the theater.

as soon as I saw the trailers for this I immediately knew I wanted to check this out. glad to see my instincts didn’t fail me.

I know what you are saying re: the things put in to solely benifit the adults of the audience. a lot of successful shows and movies do this to appeal to a wider age range. spongebob and shrek are two excellent examples.

and yet shows and movies that don’t do it can still be equally, if not more, successful just by being well directed. take pbs’s arthur for example, or march of the penguins or milo and otis.